JJ Vladimir Quotes

The entire trend of development is towards abolition of coercive domination of one part of society over another.

The working class must break up, smash the "ready-made state machinery," and not confine itself merely to laying hold of it.

In the last analysis, productivity of labour is the most important, the principal thing for the victory of the new social system.

It is at moments of need that one learns who one's friends are. Defeated armies learn their lesson.

I don't belong to any club or group. I don't fish, cook, dance, endorse books, sign books, co-sign declarations, eat oysters, get drunk, go to church, go to analysts, or take part in demonstrations.

The sun is a thief: she lures the sea and robs it. The moon is a thief: he steals his silvery light from the sun. The sea is a thief: it dissolves the moon.

There is no science without fancy and no art without fact.

A wise reader reads the book of genius not with his heart, not so much with his brain, but with his spine. It is there that occurs the telltale tingle.

A change of environment is the traditional fallacy upon which doomed loves, and lungs, rely.

Discussion in class, which means letting twenty young blockheads and two cocky neurotics discuss something that neither their teacher nor they know.

Genius still means to me, in my Russian fastidiousness and pride of phrase, a unique dazzling gift. The gift of James Joyce, and not the talent of Henry James.

We loved each other with a premature love, marked by a fierceness that so often destroys adult lives.

He broke my heart. You merely broke my life.

My own ultraviolet darling. " Lolita

Although I could never get used to the constant state of anxiety in which the guilty, the great, and the tenderhearted live, I felt I was doing my best in the way of mimicry.

You can always count on a murderer for a fancy prose style.

No author has created with less emphasis such pathetic characters as Chekhov has.

It's better not to argue with women... When people push boundaries too far, it's not because they are strong but because they are weak. But maybe weakness is not the worst quality for a woman.

Everyone must hoe his plot daily.

The Russian people chose democracy at the beginning of the 1990s and this was their final choice.

The ability to compromise is not a diplomatic politeness toward a partner but rather taking into account and respecting your partner's legitimate interests.

This terrible tragedy.... the entire international community should unite in the struggle against terrorism this is a blatant challenge to humanity.

Our aims are absolutely clear: They are a high living standard in the country and a secure, free and comfortable life.

Easter celebrations are evidence of the increased benign influence of the Russian Orthodox Church and other traditional churches in our country on society.

The most important thing is to find collective solutions in diplomacy and I think that is possible.

Equipping one side of an ethnic conflict and then prodding it to resolve its ethnic problems by force of arms is a very bad policy.

If we do it, if we work to achieve all this [cultural exchange with Japan], we can and should talk about joint efforts toward ensuring international security, and not only in the Far East.

Russia must realise its full potential in high-tech sectors such as modern energy technology, transport and communications, space and aircraft building.

In some cases, I would not want us to follow their [Donald Trump and Hillary Clinton] pattern. I do not believe they are setting the best example.

Chechnya is part and parcel of the Russian Federation.

I think the American people should express their preferences and we'll accept their choice.

Russia needs a strong state power and must have it. But I am not calling for totalitarianism.

I have Mikhail Gorbachev and Boris Yeltsin to thank that a Russian writer can not only write anything he wants, but also publish it.

Every day that you live without proper breathing is another little step of submitting to stress and deterioration of your health.

Only 3 to 5 percent of people are aware of being a part of history; the overwhelming majority think things will always be the way they are.

I mean, in general, the danger is from Oriental faiths and Islam.

Europe has united, China is growing speedily and Russia possesses immense power in terms of fuel resources. The US administration cannot do anything about it.

The civilized world needs to think about a decision when single politicians are not allowed to stay in power.

The square root of I is I.

A work of art has no importance whatever to society. It is only important to the individual.

I would like to spare the time and effort of hack reviewers and, generally, persons who move their lips when reading.

Okay, when you start to fight for equality, like Anand did in 1995, you could end up losing game 10, like he did, without putting up any kind of fight.

If you want to conquer pride, do not say that your deed was done by your hands and might; say that with God's help and guidance it was done, not by my power and efforts.

If you want to conquer anger, develop meekness and generosity.

If you want to conquer conceit, do not desire praise, laurels, nice garments, respect, favor, but like to be blamed and slandered by people.

This dream of absolute, universal equality is amazing, terrifying, and inhuman. And the moment it captures people's minds, the result is mountains of corpses and rivers of blood.

I might be shy, but in the field, where I have to do my work, I do it. I let my bat speak for myself.

It is what you are inside that matter. You, yourself, are your only real capital.

I made a better decision in choosing my team. Sure, I had a bigger choice of players to choose from - but I couldn't have asked for a harder working group of players who did an incredible job.

Every top player has his own style, just as every painter has his own personal signature.